On the night of the game, business in the bars of Nottingham was much bleaker, and many of the bars had prepared beers to celebrate the victory, but after the game almost none were sold, all of them were unsold - a draw dropped the team from first to second, everyone was in no mood to drink, and at the end of the evening, the fans who came to watch the game went home and went to sleep.

Fortunately, Nottingham Forest fans have not yet learned to shout "hero" when they win a game, and they scold "bear" when they lose a game, so they accept the result of the draw indifferently.

There were fears in the team that Donn's unexpectedly calm performance after the game was a precursor to the storm, and the next day of training was quite apprehensive, but Donn looked like he was joking with everyone, and showed no signs of venting his anger on the team.

By the time it came to the final part of training — analysing the footage of last night's game — Don gave the team a reassurance.

"You think I'm going to be angry? But why should I be angry? Wins and losses are common, and a draw is naturally more normal. I know it's a critical moment, but the more critical it is, the more we should be calm, shouldn't we? So let's get past it, and how to play the last few games is what we should be thinking about now. The strong enemy is already here, and I still wonder what happened to Reading, it's too unproductive, right? ”

There was a burst of laughter in the video projection room, and the matter was completely over.

Of course, if you say that, you can't really not think about Reading's game. This game has to be reflected, so the video of the game still needs to be studied.

A strong enemy has indeed come.

Barcelona have fielded their strongest squad so far to Nottingham with the intention of knocking out Nottingham Forest away from home.

Messi returned from injury, and Ronaldinho was left behind in Barcelona without any suspense. The countdown to the Brazilian's days in Barcelona has begun.

Even on his home turf, Donn doesn't plan to take advantage of the situation to attack and play a vigorous confrontation with Barcelona. If he did, he would be a fool. So although it has the advantage of being on the home field. He's still going to use the usual tactics of defending and counter-attacking.

That day at the empty city stadium, Tony. Don told Don that he had thought of a way to deal with Barcelona by the way. It's actually quite simple, it's rotation.

Generally speaking, no matter how strong the team is, in the Champions League, the Champions League tends to field the strongest team, and in the league the rotation lineup is used. The difference between the giants and the quasi-first-class powerhouses is that the two sets of rotation lineups of the giants are almost the same in strength. There may be a relatively large gap between the two sets of lineups of quasi-first-class teams. Nottingham Forest is not a giant, but it can't be said to be quasi-first-class, they are a first-class team. Therefore, the strength of the two sets of lineups does not want to be, but the gap is not very large, even if it is a rotation, there is a fight against Barcelona.

Donn was also a little reluctant to consider rotating in the Champions Cup. He saw the fatigue and instability of his first squad against Reading, and he did not dare to use it in the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals in the knockout format. With Reading just three days to go, he wasn't sure the first squad would change dramatically in just three days. Fatigue and instability are the big enemies of the team right now.

The draw against Reading has made Donn determined to rotate in the Champions Cup, and he is confident that he will surprise Rijkaard.

Because the first team is so famous in Europe, it is a personal opinion that with Donn's conservative style, he will definitely rely on this lineup in such a crucial game. What's more, what normal person would be fine to rotate just because of a league draw?

Ke Tony. Don's mind just wasn't quite right.

He decided to rotate. The only question was to explain to the players why they weren't in the starting line-up against Barcelona – he values the atmosphere in the dressing room and something that could trigger centrifugal tension in the dressing room must be avoided.

Ruud van Nistelrooy suffered a minor injury against Reading and it would be a compelling reason to rotate him. After all, after being held to a draw by Reading, the league is just as important.

Eastwood will also be rotated. For him, Donn is very simple, he just needs to tell him bluntly, because of tactical needs, he will be OK for this game.

Van der Vaart will also have to be replaced, and his defensive help has been limited when he has been in poor offensive form. Don decided to make a surprising change in this game, which can be considered a gamble. He's going to put George. Wood pushes into the heart of the attack.

Who is his midfielder? Sidwell.

As for the Dutch. He should know that his recent form has not been very good.

There will be no changes at centre-back, and Pepe and Pique's fitness are no problem, otherwise Forest would not have conceded a goal in their last two games.

Full-back on Gareth. Bale was replaced by Grosso. After gradually adapting to the Premier League, Grosso's performance has picked up slightly, and although he is still some way from his form in the Italian national team, he is already barely in line with Donne's requirements.

"Little Monkey" Bell is also good to say, his own family, just say "tactical needs". Layton. Barnes was a little out of condition because of his physical strength. It's also normal not to let him get on.

On the right. Don decided to use the game of lately played a little less, but defended better than Raphinha Zim Bonda.

The goalkeeper is still the experienced Van der Sar. Originally, Donn planned that Van der Sar would be too old this season. And let Akinfeev gradually take his place. But I didn't expect Van der Sar to be old and strong this season, and his form was suddenly surprisingly good. Faced with Van der Sar, who is in good form and stable, and has more experience and is more familiar with the team's defensive system, Donn naturally will not risk using Akinfeev. As a result, poor Akinfeev was not as good as he was when he played in Russia......

The wing-backs are still Franck Ribery and David Beckham, two of whom have different characteristics that make Forest's attacking tactics more varied and an advantage to rely on in the game.

The advantage of rotating this squad for this game is that there is a slight physical advantage, but the main thing is the hunger for the game and the eagerness to show yourself to win**.

They are like a pack of crazy wolves, who treat every opponent as fat in their mouths because of their lack of games. His eyes shone green, and his mouth was spewing a smoky stench while drooling, revealing his white teeth, and he grinned as if he were smiling...... In fact, it is a warning to the opponent in front of you:

This is our territory, whether we eat or not depends on our mood, and if we are in a bad mood, we will eat you. But what...... Most of the time we are not in a good mood!

“…… Compared to the first leg of the match between the two teams, Tony. Donn changed nearly half of his starting lineup in one go, which was a bit incomprehensible. Ruud van Nistelrooy may not be able to play due to a minor injury. But why did Van der Vaart change? Could it be that Don didn't think about attacking at all in this game? So, is it a bit too conservative to defend your home turf? ”

The commentator next to him laughed when he heard this: "He is such a coach." As long as you can make it to the finals, what is the unsightly scene? ”

"I think...... Against Barcelona, defending alone won't work. I'm afraid that he will not succeed in the finals at that time, and he will be scolded for his conservatism at home, how many people can accept losing the game with such a negative attitude? ”

'I'm a little bit different, maybe his team can? At Camp Nou. He allowed Barcelona to play for 90 minutes without scoring a goal......"

"That's because Barcelona didn't have Messi at the time. ”

"Oh, Messi......"

Messi is getting the ball.

The practice of finding a successor for Maradona has not stopped since his retirement, and Argentina has produced many Maradona successors in the past, some of which were hand-picked by the football king himself, and some were buttoned up by the media or fans themselves. Riquelme, D'Alessandro, Aymar, Saviola, Ortega, Tevez, Aguero...... All did "Maradona II". But the result...... Today's weather hahaha.

From the current point of view, the most promising person to reach Maradona's height may be the small man in front of him. He is no longer the rookie he was the eye-catcher, now he is a Barcelona phenomenon, an Argentine phenomenon. It is also a "phenomenon" in world football.

Rijkaard thought Tony. Donn will make Nottingham Forest's most defensive, George Forest. Wood came to defend Messi, thus freeing up other defensive forces to contain Barcelona's overall attack. As a result, the person who appeared in front of Messi made him stunned.

Not to mention him, even Messi on the field was a little surprised.

Today's Nottingham Forest is not the dark horse Nottingham Forest that reached the Champions Cup final two seasons ago, everyone in this team is an opponent, and Barcelona must study it, and there are two people they focus on - Frank. Ribery and George. Wood, one is the offensive core, the other is the defensive core.

Before the game. Rijkaard told Messi that the person watching him in this game must be George. Wood, because only George. Wood may be able to defend Messi in one-on-one, but of course it is only possible......

He asked Messi to use his flexible running to tear Wood apart, and at the same time used his quick kick to induce Wood to foul, at least let him receive a yellow card, so that in the following games, Wood will definitely miss the Champions League final because he is afraid of another yellow card. Became timid. It's a good thing for both Messi and Barcelona.

You must know that Barcelona won the final of the Forest team because of George. Wood was suspended and absent. It was the rout that led to the defeat of the Forest team. For George. For Wood, despite his importance to the team, he himself doesn't want to lose his qualification for the finals again.

Rijkaard thinks he has a good hand at it, until now.

The man standing in front of Messi was not the number 13 who wore the captain's armband, but Sidwell.

The man who defends Messi is not George. Wood!

Messi turned his head to look, and he found that Wood was in his position in the middle, and he had no intention of coming up to defend except for the attention he cast to this side.

This...... What's going on?

Hey, look down on me Messi? Looking for such a ...... Someone to defend me?

He looked at George again. Wood, the two of them came to a big eye - George. Wood is a burly man. Naturally, he has big eyes, and Messi is short and concise.

At the end of the day, Wood still didn't mean to come up and help.

Messi decided to break through on his own, he didn't know what Nottingham Forest meant, but since you don't have to be the strongest defender to come and see me, don't regret it when I break your defense and let Barcelona score!

It just so happened that Andres Iniesta came up from the back, and Sidwell's attention was distracted by Iniesta's running. Messi seized this gap to pass the ball, tricked Sidwell to shift his center of gravity, and then suddenly started to break through from the opposite direction!

Sidwell was too late to stop him, the two were too close to each other, and he couldn't react......

Nottingham Forest's defensive formation is very tight, and the distance between the midfielders and the defenders is very, very close. Against most teams, this defensive formation can sufficiently compress the space at the edge of the penalty area and not give opposing strikers a chance to take the ball in stride. At the same time, due to the contraction of the formation. The distance between the three lines is not far, and when you need to counterattack, you can quickly and accurately pass the football to the feet of your teammates, without the embarrassment of having no other means than blind big feet. Just like a spring, the harder the compression, the stronger the explosive force of the bounce. This is one of the characteristics of Nottingham Forest's defence.

But now. It has become the best stage for Messi to take on n challenges.

Due to the close distance of the defenders, once someone breaks through, the defenders behind often have to break the ball or get stuck in the first place, and a moment of hesitation may let the opponent get in. This is exactly what Messi is appetizing for Messi, who is very fast on his feet. He can rely entirely on his instinctive reactions, and in a flash, he can fight his way out of the opponent's encirclement.

Just past Sidwell, facing Grosso who came up to break the ball, he gently buckled his right foot and moved his body sideways, and brought the football past Grosso's feet. Then the emergency stop was to block the chasing Sidwell, Piquee came up to defend the position, but he unbelievably chose to split the ball in a tight space, and the ball went to the right. The person walked from the left, and the person walked in the inner circle, flashed Pique, who had just stuck the position and had no time to adjust the center of gravity, within the smallest radius, and received the football he had just kicked behind the entire defense line of Nottingham Forest, and did not hesitate to shoot angrily!

Fortunately, Van der Sar blocked the angle in time to block Messi's shot from a tight angle, otherwise Nottingham Forest would have conceded a goal in the opening three minutes of their home stadium......

There was a gasping sound at the City Stadium, and they were startled by the magical performance of the little man. Single-handedly taking on three Nottingham Forest defenders. The straight-line distance from the starting point to the shooting point is only ten meters. This small space mainland technology is too good!

Even the commentators praised Messi, who returned from injury, as the number one person in Barcelona now.

At the same time, the doubts in everyone's minds are even worse - Tony. What did Donn think? Why not let George. Wood came up to defend him?

Although the shot was blocked. Messi didn't show much annoyance, he didn't even look at Van der Sar, but turned his head to look at George. Wood.

It's no different from before he broke through, George. Wood was also looking at him, and after glaring wide-eyed, George. Wood turned his eyes away and ran back to defend a corner. There was not the slightest expression on his face that Messi wanted to see, neither surprised nor annoyed, and his face was calm as if his face was paralyzed......

After noticing the two men's eye contact from the sidelines, Don laughed. He didn't let George. Wood has his own arrangements to defend Messi, Messi can guess if you want to, if you are provoked by this, it will be a surprise.

Anyway, Rijkaard, you don't want to make George this time. Wood has gone specifically to guard Messi, because he has more important tasks to do than to contain Messi. It's just that these few minutes are Barcelona's attack, and he hasn't had a chance to show his mission yet......

Stubborn? Which bastard said I'm going to hold on to the ground at home?